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- Episcopacy - n. - Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind.
- Archiepiscopacy - n. - That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.